Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

Introduction

This is my implementation of the Design Patterns from the book

'Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software'
Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides
ISBN 0-201-63361-2
Copyright 1995
21th Printing, November 2000

The webpage and official 'code' for this book were previously available from

1. http://st-www.cs.illinois.edu/users/patterns/DPBook/DPBook.html
2. http://st-www.cs.illinois.edu/patterns/dpbook/Source.html

Unfortunately, these links no longer work. If anybody knows the new location of the 'official' source code for the book, please let me know!

The nice thing about the Design Patterns book is that it is... well... not complete :-) To come to a complete working implementation of all the Design Patterns presented in the book and be able to play with them, requires some extra coding. The goal of this project is to actually provide the missing pieces and come to something that will compile and run cleanly.

On the following websites, I have found C++ code that helped me complete everything:

• http://www.c-jump.com/CIS75/Week11/
• http://www.c-jump.com/Download/Patterns/Prototype/html/
• https://code.google.com/p/basic-algorithm-operations/source/browse/trunk/DP
• http://dislab.hufs.ac.kr/wiki/Lecture/Design_Pattern
• http://blog.csdn.net/joey_zoy/article/details/5610810
• https://github.com/wangqiang8511/C---Design-Patterns-Examples/

And here are some interesting slides that give some more explanation:

• http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~penny/teaching/csc407/

A more modern C++11 approach using Boost libraries was given in a talk by Tobias Darm given here:

• http://www.infoq.com/presentations/gof-patterns-c-plus-plus-boost

An interview from 2009 with the GoF authors is given here:

• http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1404056

A dependency analysis and refactoring of the Gang of Four examples can be found at

• https://github.com/zebmason/GoFRefactored/blob/master/README.md

Feel free to send me your comments, suggestions and improvements in the form of a git pull request!

Building

Checkout the code into a Design-Patterns-GoF directory:

$ git checkout [email protected]:BartVandewoestyne/Design-Patterns-GoF.git

Then, at the same directory level of the Design-Patterns-GoF directory, create a build directory and change into it:

~$ mkdir build
~$ cd build

Now do an out-of-source build using CMake:

~/build$ cmake ../Design-Patterns-GoF/
~/build$ make